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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicIRMS

Topic: IRMS

High-level policy change causes ripples in Railways, pushback from business houses & within

Business houses and different railway zones have sent strongly-worded communications to the Railway Board asking for a reversal of the policy, it is learnt.

Railway officers challenge ministry’s services demerger in CAT, call it arbitrary & unconstitutional

Sources say petitioners argue that U-turn amounts to retrospective imposition on IRMS officers, whose career prospects would be adversely, irreversibly affected if decision not revised.

Removing tech entrance for Railways wasn’t feasible. Reinstatement is mere course correction

The decision to recruit for IRMS through CSE alone created career uncertainty for hundreds of applicants. Crucial technical positions have remained vacant for 3 years.

‘1st non-biological PM merged it, then railways got submerged’: Jairam’s dig as reform move unravels

His remarks follow a report by ThePrint highlighting concerns among probationers about govt's potential plan to split IRMS again to address shortage of technical expertise.

Railway Board says IRMS will end services’ ‘turf war’. Here’s why some officers are opposing it

Senior officers of services that are being merged say new Indian Railways Management Service is beset with confusion. Railway Board insists it will raise efficiency, cut red tape.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.